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ANARCHY IN THE UKThree of The Adelaide Review’s arts writers report on their personal experience of the Saatchi exhibition and despite differences in both age and gender, their impressions are not as diverse as one might have expected.
UNCERTAIN FUTURELong live the Young Pioneer Girl. Eyes ablaze with patriotic favour, fresh from denouncing family and friends. But hang on. Someone’s graffitied knickers onto her skirt. Chairman Mao would not have approved. But he’s gone. So knickers are OK.
HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWSThe art of Russell Drysdale is synonymous with a kind of Outback Australia which is now the stuff of tourism; red earth, gaunt trees, endless vistas, rugged ranges and lots of characters.
I SPY: CURATING CONTEMPORARY ARTThe Adelaide Review continues its investigation on how curating is shaping the way we engage with contemporary art with the final part of this special two-issue feature.
KNOWING YOU DIDN’T KNOW: CURATING CONTEMPORARY ARTIn the first of two features The Adelaide Review investigates how curating is shaping the way we engage with contemporary art.
FEVERGeoffrey Brown once remarked that he goes by the “sense of the imagery… things either look alright or they don’t”. This may explain the powerful undercurrent of instability, which permeates his imagery.
ATAVISTIC HOWLINGSculpture had a tough time of it until art museums offered shelter from the storm. Until then sculptures had to be made of stern stuff like bronze and stone to see the distance.
BEYOND BRAVURABMG Art gets Spielgeltented with two fantastical exhibitions running simultaneously as part of the Adelaide Festival featuring the subversively spinning ceramics of Stephen Bowers and the curious cabarets of painter Mark Thompson.
POWER PORTRAITSBlack Chicks Talking is the name given to the title of a book, documentary film and play by actor, writer and director Leah Purcell. In this creative journey that began in 1999, Purcell explored her own experiences and that of nine other Indigenous Australian women across Australia.
GARRY DUNCANGarry Duncan comments that he paints with a hand that sometimes shakes with anger when he recalls the disrespect so many people have for the environment. But he appears to channel this emotion into more positive modes of expression.
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The Adelaide Review's resident foodie, raconteur and general man about town, John McGrath gets the inside story on Adelaide's new eateries and revisits old favourites. |
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